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1:55

another fun-filled edition of Jim Cornette's Drive-Thru,

1:58

ladies and gentlemen, where... I

2:00

said ladies and gentlemen twice, now it's three times. But

2:03

we're gonna talk about wrestling. Will

2:05

Jim turn Tony into a hand puppet? We'll

2:08

answer that question and so much more. I'm

2:10

your host, the great Brian Last. We're

2:12

about to cover the wild world of wrestling and everything

2:14

that happened in pro wrestling drama this week with

2:17

this man, the leader of the Cult

2:19

of Cornette, Mr. Jim Cornette.

2:22

Do you honestly, Brian Last, think there

2:24

are any ladies out there? There might

2:26

be a few gentlemen in our audience,

2:28

even that may be a tenuous description

2:31

of reality, but are there really any

2:33

ladies? There may be a couple of

2:35

females again, but would a

2:37

lady listen to this program? If

2:41

she liked professional wrestling and snappy

2:44

takes, yeah. And snappy pappies

2:46

and things like that? Snappy pappies?

2:48

Yeah. Ha ha ha. No,

2:51

we hear from some of the ladies. Hey, there was this

2:53

one lady that was, she kind of had a beetle haircut.

2:55

She was sending everyone nude photos. Oh,

2:57

come on now. That's what she said. Come

3:00

on now, come on down. You

3:02

can't say that about John, Paul or

3:05

George, maybe Ringo. What about John Fell?

3:08

John Fell, he didn't have anything to do with it.

3:10

He wasn't even there. So

3:12

where are we going? You've botched

3:14

the opening. I've jumped in and slandered

3:17

you and the audience as well. And

3:20

now it's your program. You

3:22

know, I'm getting sick and fed up with one thing though.

3:24

I'll tell you this at the top of the program. I

3:27

still get the comments on the Twitter. Can't

3:30

call it X because you still go to twitter.com.

3:34

And after all, X is a stupid

3:36

name anyway. But I get

3:38

comments on, well, Cornette, yeah. He's

3:41

scared to leave his house still because of

3:43

the COVID. I'm not

3:45

scared to leave the house because of COVID anymore.

3:48

I've just now discovered over the last several

3:50

years how much I enjoy not leaving the

3:52

house. Because Brian, guess what I did yesterday?

3:55

Did you leave the house? I left the house. Oh, where'd

3:58

you go? Well. I

4:01

got Stace that new car this past summer,

4:03

as you may recall when

4:05

last we left our space travelers. They

4:08

had a new car. Well,

4:10

of course, I've still got Black Beauty, which is a

4:12

2007, so it doesn't have all the computerized

4:15

bullshit on it that they got

4:17

with the cars these days. The

4:19

young whippersnapper automobiles he's got these

4:21

days that are delinquents.

4:25

And her car talks to you and

4:27

talks to the goddamn NORAD

4:29

space satellites and there's cameras everywhere

4:31

and there's goddamn beeping. It'll drive

4:33

itself. It turns itself on and

4:35

off when it decides it needs

4:37

to. Scares the shit out

4:39

of me to ride in it. So

4:43

that's why I usually stick to Black Beauty, which

4:45

I can turn the one voice off that talks

4:47

to me because I don't need

4:49

it. I know where I'm going. But

4:53

because you can't turn off, that's the problem. Well

4:56

there's several voices inside my head that I

4:59

can't turn off, but the

5:01

one in my car I can. But

5:05

as a result of being

5:07

a computerized monstrosity from space,

5:10

her new car had two recalls

5:12

on it for him to set

5:14

the software, reset the software for

5:16

the... It detects if

5:18

you're going to be in a collision despite whether

5:20

you might not be really going to be in

5:22

a collision and it'll fucking start driving on its

5:24

own and shit. And

5:27

that was malfunctioning and

5:29

there was some other software goddamn... It

5:33

may burst into flame. I don't know what the fucking

5:35

deal was. So we're going to take it back to

5:38

the dealer, point being. And

5:40

we got the car at this

5:42

medium-sized dealership, but out in the country

5:45

over here, we didn't go downtown. We

5:47

didn't go to the

5:49

busy parts of town. We went out

5:51

in Oldham County. It's right about a mile

5:53

on the other side of Pee Wee Valley. And

5:56

it's only about 10 miles from the house here, but it's

5:58

a two... lane road because

6:01

you're going back through the

6:03

nice east end

6:05

estates with the big yards and the

6:07

farm fences and you cross the

6:09

railroad tracks and it's a scenic drive

6:12

out there through Edgewood, Eastwood, Peewee

6:15

Valley, whatever the fuck. And

6:19

finally, we finally get a chance

6:21

to make an appointment about two or three weeks ahead

6:24

of time, make sure they know we're coming, they got

6:26

all the shit they need to do, blah, and

6:30

so yesterday morning we get up 18 goddamn

6:32

degrees by the way when I got up

6:34

to walk Harley yesterday morning here in Louisville

6:38

and we drive

6:40

over there just fine and

6:42

drop the car off, we're going to pick it up

6:44

today which we already have but

6:48

that's the first time I've driven down that

6:50

road, Brian, in about six months. So can

6:52

you imagine what happened? What

6:56

happened? You got a flat tire. No,

6:59

there was a goddamn chaotic

7:02

accident on I-71

7:04

South which closed the

7:06

interstate and rerouted all

7:09

the goddamn traffic coming from

7:11

Cincinnati off

7:14

the interstate and onto this beautiful scenic country

7:16

road going the same direction I was trying

7:18

to go in to come home. And

7:23

suddenly, this little winding country

7:25

road and this scenic drive didn't look so fucking scenic

7:27

when there was 27 fucking tractor trailer trucks in front

7:29

of me. It

7:31

took me a goddamn hour to get

7:33

home from driving 10 miles to drop this

7:36

fucking car off

7:39

just to go back there and pick it up the next day. So

7:42

the point is anybody gets mad at me for not leaving the

7:44

house over the last four years over

7:47

the last four years besides the fact that

7:50

my health has never been better, my weight

7:52

has never been better, and my sleep has

7:54

never been better. I don't

7:56

have to deal with the aggravation of

8:00

every Jack leg and knit width that

8:02

I run across or every goddamn traffic

8:04

schmaz and chaotic incident that

8:06

you have to deal with when you're a person

8:08

that goes out into public circle on

8:11

a regular basis, if

8:13

nominated, I will not run and if elected,

8:15

I will not serve. I'm staying in the

8:18

house from now on. But

8:24

it's your program. So we'll do whatever you want.

8:26

How would a Jim Cornette in his early twenties,

8:28

if you had broken into wrestling today, how do

8:30

you think you would have dealt with being on

8:32

the road or the limited times that anyone's actually

8:34

on the road, but driving in the nation today

8:36

versus the nation 40 years ago? Oh, no, you

8:38

couldn't do it. In

8:41

all seriousness, the schedule

8:43

that Crockett promotions kept on

8:47

not only anything that where we drove

8:49

when we all lived in Charlotte and

8:51

we drove the Carolinas and Virginia towns,

8:54

but also the schedules

8:56

that we made flying commercially,

9:00

especially maybe not even with

9:02

his private plane anymore, but the commercial

9:04

flights that we took for TBS,

9:08

for Crockett, you

9:10

know, when he bought commercial tickets and even in

9:13

the mid nineties, some of the schedules

9:16

that we kept in the WWF, you couldn't

9:18

do it today. And

9:20

I'm not talking about, oh, you know, the

9:22

kids these days. No, I'm, you couldn't physically,

9:24

it takes so much longer to get

9:27

from one place to, I've been to Charlotte in

9:30

the last several years and

9:32

the traffic we would leave

9:34

to go to fucking Raleigh on

9:37

a Wednesday after we did promos at

9:39

Crockett's office. So we're leaving from, if

9:42

anybody knows Charlotte geography,

9:44

uh, I 77 and Woodlawn

9:47

road. We're leaving from

9:49

that area at four 30

9:51

on a Wednesday. And

9:54

we are at Dorton arena in Raleigh by seven

9:56

30. And

9:58

that's 175 miles. miles and

10:00

rush hour through North Charlotte, you

10:03

couldn't physically do it. And

10:05

much less some of the other trips.

10:07

I told you one time, J.J. Dillon

10:10

and I were on the same plane. We did

10:12

a Greensboro, North Carolina show at 2 o'clock in

10:15

the afternoon, flew out of Greensboro,

10:18

through Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and got to

10:20

the building in time to do the double main

10:22

event that night. You

10:25

couldn't get through fucking security now. So

10:30

those schedules couldn't physically be

10:32

done, humanly, at this point, with

10:35

the difference now in the time of travel, both

10:37

traffic on the interstate and getting

10:39

through an airport. There

10:41

was almost no fucking security, for fuck's

10:43

sake. You know, you

10:46

went through a metal detector and that was it. And

10:49

I don't know if they looked. All

10:52

right, well, a plane is going by overhead.

10:55

So someone's looking in on us. Is

10:58

surveillance again on you? I thought it was the

11:00

week they were supposed to watch me. Well maybe

11:02

they want to find out where all the fine

11:04

Cornets collectibles are being hidden right now. Well,

11:06

you know, I'll tell you real quick at the top of

11:09

the program where they're being hidden, right in my garage

11:11

and ready to come to you at jimcornet.com.

11:15

Remember folks, what is to, oh

11:17

Jesus Christ. Please, by the

11:19

time you hear the sound of my voice,

11:21

this weekend will be the first weekend of

11:23

December. I've already

11:25

scheduled with the Feather Bottoms, everybody

11:27

that orders through Monday morning, December

11:30

the 4th, is going to

11:32

be in my hands and being signed by

11:34

the next day. And we're going to get

11:36

it out by the following weekend. So

11:39

domestically, you still have a chance to get

11:41

everything before Christmas, whether it be the Midnight

11:44

Express 40th anniversary four pack of

11:46

action figure set with the

11:49

book, the certificate and the photo, or

11:51

the Santa Corny to

11:54

stuff in somebody's stocking or

11:56

potentially up their ass with

11:58

my fine little Santa hat. in my red

12:00

and green suit, and all

12:03

the rest of the fine things at jimcornett.com,

12:05

of which they are too

12:07

many to enumerate here. Well,

12:10

as you said, it's my show. Enough about Cornett's collectibles.

12:12

I think everyone needs to- Well, it's not enough about

12:15

them! Well, for now. I could

12:17

go on and on, but I don't want

12:19

to co-opt the whole program because it's partially

12:21

your show. Well, Monday

12:23

Night Raw- The responsibility lies with you. I'm just

12:26

a guest star. Well, this past

12:28

week, the responsibility for Raw lied with, uh,

12:30

I'm not exactly sure who. Oh!

12:33

It was a big episode, so why don't we

12:35

get that out of the way right now, because

12:37

everyone was tuning in, everyone was wanting to know

12:39

what CM Punk would say. The video's done well

12:42

on YouTube so far. What

12:44

does CM Punk say on Raw? Let's

12:47

talk about- Let's

12:49

talk about what he didn't get to say!

12:51

Yeah, the many speeches of Monday Night, known

12:53

as Raw. Jesus!

12:57

I can't believe they dropped this one. And

13:00

I'm not talking about the Punk

13:02

promo individually, I'm talking about the

13:04

ball of Raw was dropped. It

13:06

was flummoxed. It was fumbled. It

13:08

was fucking turned over, possibly, even.

13:12

They had all the interest

13:14

in the world coming

13:16

off of Survivor Series, right? And

13:19

Orton's back, and Punk is back, and what's going

13:21

to go on with Drew, and blah, blah, and

13:24

all the soap opera, and the

13:27

shenanigans, and hijinks. And

13:30

they had a commercial hour free, or a commercial

13:33

free hour for the opening 60 minutes of

13:41

the program, and we

13:44

don't have it yet, do we? Do we

13:46

have the ratings? Yes, we would

13:49

have the ratings by now. Yes, we do. I don't

13:51

know what they are, because I've had shit going on.

13:53

I was out in the middle of the fucking woods

13:56

buying a truck, but

13:59

they had a lot of... a fucking interest, right?

14:03

And they came out and I

14:05

swear to God, I've seen more

14:07

fucking fights on C-SPAN. They

14:10

talked and talked and talked and talked

14:12

and talked some more and the one...

14:15

We'll go into detail about the rest of

14:17

the show. I'm prefacing the punk promo here.

14:20

We'll go back into detail later

14:22

on. But they talked and talked

14:24

and talked and talked and the one lengthy

14:27

bit of action that they did

14:30

give us was a tag team

14:32

turmoil situation where team

14:34

A wrestles team B and then the winner moves

14:36

on to team C and winner on to team

14:38

D. The fucking same

14:40

idea that I did 30 years

14:43

ago in Smoky Mountain from my friend Rob

14:45

Moore out in Greenville, Texas. It nearly got

14:47

me sued. We've told

14:49

that story. I was looking up on YouTube.

14:51

You were there. Morristown. I should have fucking

14:53

had you goddamn come in as a witness.

14:57

I never actually got sued because I told the guy,

15:00

you know what? Just fuck you and fuck it and

15:02

we'll not do that anymore because I don't want to

15:04

deal with you because you're a fucking idiot. Yeah, what

15:06

did they say? They said that how

15:08

dare you? You're not allowed to call it King of the

15:10

Mountain. They own the rights to King of the Mountain for

15:13

wrestling. Okay, well now I'm gonna segue into this story real

15:15

quick. Rob at Fan Week

15:17

that he's not even a nice guy. Rob

15:19

Moore, really nice guy. Really nice guy. Had

15:22

sent me an idea of why don't you

15:24

have this kind of an ongoing matchup like

15:26

that where two

15:28

guys wrestle and then the winner wrestles next guy

15:30

and then you go on and see who the

15:32

final man's gonna buy. I used it in OVW.

15:35

Called it the King of the Valley. But

15:37

in this instance it was the

15:39

King of the Mountain match in Morristown, Tennessee

15:41

at the fucking Tallyward Rec Center. And

15:44

we got a letter from

15:46

this fucking idiot outlaw

15:49

tough man contest promoter from I

15:52

think down in Cleveland, Tennessee. Well

15:55

we do the King of the Mountain

15:57

tough man contest and

15:59

he He had his lawyer send me

16:01

a cease and desist. They asked, what the fuck?

16:03

We did this on a spot show, number one.

16:05

Number two, who the fuck are you that

16:08

you think that your goddamn

16:10

drunken bums that you pull

16:12

out of honky tonks and

16:14

hoot saloons could be possibly

16:16

confused with my nationally televised

16:18

personalities on Smokey about Wrestling,

16:20

including myself who's on WWF

16:22

TV. And so go fuck

16:24

yourself again. But just so that

16:27

I don't ever have to deal with because we

16:29

weren't going to do the match again, as it's

16:31

just so we don't ever have to deal with

16:33

you again and I don't ever have to listen

16:35

to you or your fucking ambulance chasing asshole attorney,

16:37

we won't do it anymore. Fuck off.

16:41

So anyway, so

16:44

back to Raw. The

16:46

one match they had with the tag team

16:49

thing, we'll talk about that later, but otherwise

16:51

it was just talking and talking and talking

16:53

and dramaticness of every kind. And finally,

16:56

the one thing that pretty much

16:59

you could universally say, whether you like punk

17:01

or not, everybody was waiting to hear from

17:03

him and

17:05

we waited two hours and

17:08

52 fucking minutes

17:11

before we heard like a

17:15

mousseline in Tennessee.

17:23

They not only had the fucking

17:26

interview of the year and dropped

17:29

the bowl, they couldn't manage

17:31

their time. We're going to talk a lot

17:33

about time management on Wrestling television

17:35

in this episode of the podcast

17:38

too. And

17:40

we've been blistering the other guys for not

17:42

being able to manage their time. And

17:45

now I get the story. They ran long and

17:48

they get eight minutes till the top of the

17:50

hour. His music

17:52

plays and he comes out and

17:54

gets the fucking big ovation and the signs

17:57

and there's he sees there's people on both

17:59

sides. sides of the arena and it

18:02

was six minutes till the top of the hour and

18:04

the end of the program before he could speak. How

18:08

do they manage to do that? I

18:13

don't even know if that's a rhetorical question. I mean,

18:15

look, answer it anyway. I mean, the other problem is

18:17

they made everyone wait. They made everyone wait.

18:20

And I think a lot of people gave up on waiting

18:22

and said, I'll see what they put on YouTube tomorrow to

18:25

the very end, whether

18:27

he got capped with the time or

18:29

not, I think

18:31

for a lot of people, it was a deflating

18:35

promo. There was nothing. Not

18:37

that he had to say anything about AW or anyone

18:39

there. He didn't have to say anything about that, but

18:42

he had to say something. And

18:45

I feel like something was missing. There

18:47

was no pith to

18:49

the pithiness of the promo.

18:51

It didn't have pithiness, but

18:54

that's on a variety of levels. Part

18:59

of the comeback promo, the reason

19:01

why that we remembered

19:03

it and loved it in AW

19:05

is because it was the first 25 minutes

19:09

of the fucking program by the time that everything

19:11

was all said and done. Right. And

19:14

as I recall, the pipe bomb

19:16

back in whatever

19:18

year in the WWF,

19:20

or it was still E

19:22

by then, that took a little while.

19:26

But here, boom, he's out and

19:30

he either had the choice of starting

19:32

and telling a story and

19:36

needing more time to get to the bottom

19:38

of it, but he needed to, they

19:41

neither gave him the time to tell

19:43

a longer story to draw people into

19:45

something or they

19:47

gave him nothing to

19:51

exclaim at the end, besides

19:54

I'm back. I thought

19:56

he needed to declare a purpose.

20:00

we needed to have something from

20:03

him about what the

20:05

fuck was going to happen to

20:07

possibly somebody. I don't know.

20:10

You see what I'm saying? Oh, I agree.

20:12

It needed more time and it

20:14

needed a more besides a fact,

20:16

a purpose. I

20:18

mean, everything he said was great. We need

20:20

more of it. And

20:23

with a better capper at the end.

20:25

I mean, I loved I'm not

20:27

here to make friends, I'm here to make money. But

20:29

that was the very, very end. Yes.

20:33

And you know, but otherwise

20:36

I needed to hear, you

20:39

know, I'm going to goddamn be the main

20:41

event at WrestleMania if I have to cripple

20:43

every motherfucker here or something. You see what

20:45

I'm saying? Yeah, look, I mean, there's

20:47

a few things here. When he debuted in

20:50

AEW on Rampage, he

20:53

started the show. They began

20:55

the show with the music and he

20:58

was after you said 25 minutes. I think it was more

21:00

like 45 minutes. I did. Maybe

21:02

it was a while, but it flew by. Yeah, it was

21:04

great. I'm not saying it took too long or anything, but

21:06

I think it like ate up a large

21:09

part of that first hour and it was tremendous. He

21:12

started that show. He ended this show. They

21:15

end along that

21:18

show. It was

21:20

still technically a rumor that punk would

21:22

be there. This show

21:24

you knew he was going to be there. Yeah.

21:26

And you knew he was there and you kept

21:29

waiting for him. And I think they

21:31

mishandled that. And I think he had

21:33

to say something. He has

21:35

that rare ability that like a Jake

21:37

Roberts had where whether he's

21:40

a babyface or a heel, you don't know what

21:42

you can trust that he says. Not

21:45

that he's a liar, but I mean, if he came out

21:47

there and said, and I'm telling you I'm here to not

21:50

cause any problems, I want

21:52

to get along. Just tease something. There was no

21:54

tease of anything. There was

21:56

no tease of anything with Rollins. There

21:59

was no tease of anything with Rollins. with Roman. He

22:01

mentioned a wise man, so there's that little

22:03

bit of a tease. He

22:06

didn't say anything wrong,

22:08

but he also just didn't say anything. It was kind

22:10

of just... Well, it was like... Happy to be here.

22:12

I love everyone. What... Well, let me ask you this,

22:14

since we're talking about the promo. What

22:17

did you think of him saying it's good to be home? We

22:19

just talked about that concept. Well,

22:22

here's the thing. The promo that he

22:24

did was fine if

22:26

there had been been more promo. Okay,

22:28

let's start. He... Hey, hell

22:30

has frozen over. CM

22:33

Punk's on Rob with a live microphone,

22:35

and he gives the people the jab

22:37

because he's... He plugs

22:39

the Blackhawks. He's in Nashville, the home of

22:41

the Nashville hockey

22:43

team. I can't remember what their... The Dixies.

22:46

The Dixies, yes. Scoring

22:49

goals constantly. Then

22:51

he plugged... He said, I've changed.

22:57

How do I feel? It may

22:59

sound corny and it may sound cheesy, but

23:01

I've changed. And he plugged

23:03

Dusty in there. He said, kid,

23:06

if you always just speak from the heart

23:08

or speak the truth, you'll never go wrong.

23:11

This is the truth. I'm home. And

23:14

I'll tell you my interpretation of that, which

23:17

I think is probably the same thing that...

23:21

The same thing that he was

23:23

trying to say when he came to AEW,

23:25

but now he's learned a lesson. When

23:28

he came to AEW, he felt like he was back

23:30

in the wrestling business and he had left it when

23:33

he went to the WWE.

23:35

He'd left the wrestling business and he felt

23:37

that way. And most people do that liked

23:40

the wrestling business. And

23:44

he thought at the time

23:47

he went into AEW, he's going

23:49

to make a difference in their business. He's

23:52

going to have a nice run the second

23:54

time. He earned

23:57

a nice second run, last

23:59

run, whatever. the case. He'll be given a

24:01

chance to make a difference in this. He'll be given

24:03

a chance to make a difference and he obviously will

24:05

make a difference because he saw the rest of the

24:07

roster and he did

24:09

make a difference at the beginning but

24:13

he's okay I'll go out at easier

24:15

schedule. There was

24:17

problems with the other company in the

24:19

past. I'll make a difference with this

24:21

company. I'll contribute something. I

24:24

see guys I want to work with, help

24:26

elevate whatever he was gung-ho on that and

24:28

make some money. He

24:32

realized that

24:34

that place doesn't exist anymore if you

24:36

want to be in the wrestling business

24:38

because instead of working for a corporate

24:42

publicly traded machine, he had

24:45

to go to kindergarten

24:49

with a bunch of kids that were

24:51

doing it for the fucking love of

24:53

the star ratings and to be the

24:57

bosses. It's that

24:59

PWG on national television for

25:02

these jackoffs and they

25:04

didn't like the competition of a real star

25:06

that was trying to make serious money in

25:08

a serious way. They

25:10

didn't want to get shown up. They

25:12

didn't like him anyway because they're naturally not

25:16

the kind of people who are going to get along with Punk.

25:19

Tony as we've mentioned, all the

25:21

things we've mentioned and he realized

25:24

Jesus Christ I gotta get out of here.

25:29

And so now he's a changed

25:31

person because he's realized unfortunately

25:34

for the wrestling business. If

25:37

you want to be serious about making money, you

25:39

have to work

25:41

for the goddamn corporate publicly

25:44

traded machine because the other place

25:46

is a goddamn shit show. And

25:51

so now I think he believes he's a

25:53

you know what I guess I am home.

25:56

This is the only place that people

25:58

are doing business. and

26:00

worried about making money instead

26:02

of fucking friends. Well the other thing too is

26:05

look at the two homes he had. The

26:07

indies and WWE. With

26:10

WWE, what he got reintroduced

26:12

right back into were big

26:14

buildings, full houses, professional... Whether

26:17

you like what they do or not, it's a professional

26:19

setup. Professional catering.

26:21

Everything's done professionally. He

26:24

went from that, kind

26:26

of to what would become a bigger

26:30

finance version of the indies of 15-20

26:32

years ago. Where

26:35

him and Daniel, Samoa, Joe, and all these guys

26:37

were stars. It's

26:39

that elevated but it's also that drama and

26:42

that lack of control because it's the indies

26:46

elevated. So what's your

26:48

home? Is your home going back to the rec

26:50

center or is it going back to the

26:52

arena? When you

26:55

reach a level in this business

26:57

that you can draw serious money

27:00

for the WWE if you're positioned

27:02

the right way, then

27:05

I think this is proven that's

27:08

almost the only place you can go. Because

27:12

either you will be on

27:14

a substandard program

27:16

that every outlaw jack

27:18

leg that Tony takes

27:21

a liking to is featured at your level

27:24

or that the ratings are declining

27:26

because it's all the goddamn same. They

27:29

just signed... Edge gets to... I

27:32

guess the WWE may have wanted to... A

27:34

couple of pay per views a year or

27:36

whatever, limited schedule. Edge

27:38

gets to finish his career with

27:40

Christian, his friend, his best friend.

27:43

Okay. But if you

27:46

feel like you still have career left and

27:48

you've got a few

27:50

years run that you could draw them money,

27:52

then that's the only

27:54

thing. Cody saw that. And

27:57

I'm not saying he's only got a few years but I mean...

28:00

Look at what Cody's doing now. Ed,

28:02

where he was stuck before, but set

28:04

himself on fucking fire. So...

28:08

That's the thing. If you're someone who takes

28:10

it seriously and you are in AEW, if

28:14

we go based on the test of, you

28:16

know, the sample size of who's left,

28:19

you're gonna eventually run into a wall of

28:21

frustration. Because

28:24

the best case scenario is

28:27

you get to do something really good in your segment,

28:30

and it's followed up by all sorts of shit. The

28:33

worst case scenario is your segments start to

28:35

suck too. And

28:37

that's the AEW thing. Weird

28:39

question. And again, you know, we're all...

28:43

At one point or another, smart fans, you know, me

28:45

and you, we all at different points, you got into

28:47

the business. But

28:49

do you think it's more rewarding maybe for

28:52

a wrestler to perform in front of the WWE

28:54

audience than it is in

28:56

front of the AEW audience? Because it's a very different

28:58

set of reactions from the audience. There

29:01

are some similarities. Some

29:03

of the chants are the same. But

29:06

you're getting more kids, you're getting... I mean,

29:08

I know people say AEW has women there too. You

29:10

may be getting more women with WWE, I don't know,

29:12

but people, people say it, we just can't find them.

29:15

It's a bigger house. It's an

29:17

easier crowd. They get silent during

29:19

shit too, of course. But do

29:21

you think maybe it's more fulfilling? Especially

29:24

at a later stage in your career to perform in

29:26

front of that audience versus AEW? Well,

29:29

gee, that's an essay question in the

29:32

middle of, you know, we're

29:34

still talking about his promo, which we're gonna come

29:36

back to. But there's multiple

29:41

different levels and kinds of satisfaction

29:43

when you're in the wrestling business

29:45

and you're... Yeah,

29:48

okay. I've been in

29:51

the Superdome with Watts

29:53

early in my career and my

29:55

God, that was amazing. Even

29:59

though I didn't have... my glasses on and the fucking

30:01

lights were down, so I never actually saw most

30:03

of those fucking people, but you could hear them.

30:07

But at the same point,

30:09

I've actually felt more, oh

30:13

shit, from the Charlotte

30:15

Coliseum, half the amount of people, because every

30:17

seat was filled. There was enough light, you

30:19

could see the people and then it was

30:21

the roof on the building. It wasn't as

30:24

big. There were 25,000 people in

30:26

a goddamn Superdome, but it seats 80 or

30:28

whatever. There

30:32

was times that you would

30:35

be at a show in goddamn in

30:37

Pikeville, Kentucky, the Bluegrass Brawl, where a

30:39

smaller building even with 2,000 people in

30:41

it, but there wasn't room to draw a

30:44

deep breath. That

30:46

was an incredible reaction

30:50

from people because it's so compressed

30:52

and so compact and so loud.

30:57

Then there's

30:59

another level when

31:01

you get to the

31:05

stadium situation that

31:07

WWE does with WrestleMania, just

31:11

the people jumping up and down for

31:13

an Austin or a rock or of

31:15

that type of thing and the lights

31:17

in the atmosphere, that's

31:20

off the charts. But by the same point,

31:22

because the wrestling fans

31:24

as a whole don't

31:27

react as... I

31:29

think you can testify to this because you've

31:31

been seeing them for 30 years. They're

31:33

not each one as bat shit into everything

31:36

as they used to be 30 and

31:38

40 years ago when

31:40

people have seen the old videos. So even

31:43

some of the modern WWE

31:45

crowds in those stadiums, unless

31:49

you're figured in at

31:51

a high level and really over, you're

31:54

walking out looking, Jesus Christ, they don't give

31:57

a shit about me, do they? I've been

31:59

in that position. some

32:01

of those fucking, you know,

32:04

WWF shows in the nineties. So

32:07

it just, it

32:09

depends on what you want

32:11

to do to get your

32:14

satisfaction from, you

32:16

know, do you want to make money because you

32:18

know, you might only can do this another five

32:20

years and you, you loved working

32:22

and showing people what you could do when

32:25

you were 25, but you

32:28

need to, you know, you need to

32:30

consider your exit strategy. What is more

32:32

exhilarating? Put yourself through a fucking table

32:36

or getting booked in a goddamn pay-per-view main

32:38

event because you can talk and people care

32:40

who you are. You're not

32:42

just doing shit. That's fun for you to do. You've

32:45

actually made yourself a personality. It makes a

32:47

difference in business. So

32:51

I'm sure it's exhilarating and

32:53

gratifying or what word did you use that I'm

32:55

trying to fumble around and remember for

32:58

a lot, fulfilling for

33:00

a lot of these people to have the goddamn

33:03

four star street fight or

33:06

for, you know, Brian Danielson to get his

33:08

own G1 tournament brought to him by Tony

33:10

Kahn more on that. Maybe on

33:12

the experience because he, you know, he don't want to

33:14

leave home for a month and leave his kids. So

33:16

Tony's doing him a tournament. Um,

33:19

it may be more fulfilling to goddamn

33:22

really, Hey, I made a difference in

33:24

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33:26

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33:29

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33:32

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34:08

Okay, back to the promo. So

34:11

he spoke from the heart again. I was gone

34:14

for 10 years and you people never forgot me.

34:16

You never stopped chanting my name and that's where

34:18

he put the wise man line in. A wise

34:20

man told me I'd have to get

34:23

everything I wanted out of this place. I'd

34:25

have to leave and come back and he

34:27

was right. And we've said

34:29

that a million times because people when they leave,

34:32

when they're frustrated or

34:35

when they're not going

34:37

anywhere or going where they want to go,

34:39

then you

34:41

know, it's time to cactus Jack did

34:43

that with WCW in the 90s. But

34:47

anyway, so he, you know,

34:50

he thanked everybody for

34:52

welcoming me, welcoming him back. He

34:55

AJ's great and sends her regards.

34:58

Everybody welcomed me back here, almost

35:00

everybody. And then some he said,

35:02

we're afraid of the truth, afraid

35:04

of the competition, afraid I set the

35:06

bar too high. And

35:09

this is where he

35:11

was getting into it. The most dangerous and

35:13

controversial man in wrestling is here and they

35:16

can't handle it. And

35:18

the best in the world is back and his

35:20

name is CM Punk. Boom. You

35:24

know, this was forceful. But

35:28

basically that was it. The

35:30

best world is back and his name is CM

35:32

Punk. And then they

35:34

hit his music and he said to the camera, and

35:37

I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to make

35:39

money, which was a, you know,

35:41

a wonderful fucking nod

35:43

to where he's been. And

35:46

we'll talk in a second about whether the

35:49

people that thought that he was going to

35:51

talk about AEW with any specificity or out

35:53

of their minds from the start, the WWE

35:55

doesn't do that. And they're not gonna, as

35:58

I said on the last program. You

36:01

know, this is, they've left cable access.

36:03

They're on network now. This is the

36:05

belt is not going to be displayed

36:07

because it's a fucking toy

36:10

belt from Walmart compared to the universe that

36:12

they're in. So whether

36:14

he's not going to tear

36:16

down AEW or mentioned Tony Khan

36:18

by name or talk about

36:20

the children that he worked with, except

36:23

in vague elusive terms, because

36:26

the audience is a fraction of

36:28

theirs and they don't do that. Jared

36:30

didn't talk about the Paphos, the

36:33

fucking the established company

36:36

doesn't talk about the outlaws. So

36:39

I don't know why everybody thought he was going to go

36:41

off and tell all the backstage

36:43

secrets of AEW because most of

36:45

the WWE audience either doesn't know

36:47

or apparently doesn't care that there

36:51

is an AEW. So,

36:53

so that was crazy. But

36:57

as I said, we, why Cody had

36:59

declared for the Royal Rumble earlier in the program,

37:06

how different would even this six

37:08

minute abbreviated promo that they

37:10

fumbled by not giving

37:13

him more time, how different

37:15

would it have been viewed if he said, Hey,

37:17

Cody, you got some fucking company

37:19

pal. I'm in it too. Something,

37:22

a point at the end. Help me. Tease

37:24

anything. He didn't tease anything. He didn't tease

37:26

whether he's a baby face or a heel.

37:28

What show he's going to be on didn't

37:31

tease anything. Do you think

37:34

WWE needed to start raw with the promo? Do you

37:36

think it needed to be the nine o'clock hour? Where

37:38

do you think it should have been? Well, and, and

37:40

also he didn't need to, this is the one

37:42

time I'm going to say this about heels and

37:45

baby faces. He didn't need to tell us that

37:47

right now because he's probably going to be both because

37:49

there was signs a few different

37:51

directions in the, in the crowd. And

37:54

that's what the most dangerous man, the most

37:56

controversial man, you want

37:58

that again, most people. there are

38:00

going to be happy to see him back because

38:04

they don't know where he's been. They ain't watching. I

38:06

mean, that's just the numbers, right? I kind of wish

38:08

you were talking for him the other night. No, he

38:10

just, well, he didn't have to say that. I agree

38:12

with you. My point was he didn't say anything. But

38:14

yes, no, I'm agreeing with you. I'm just saying that's

38:17

the one thing. We don't need to know that because

38:19

it's gonna be, you know, left

38:21

up again to the people and it's gonna be

38:23

organic. But placement,

38:25

as you mentioned, I

38:29

tell you what, I

38:31

don't know whether they might

38:33

should have rearranged this to

38:35

where if they were gonna,

38:39

I would have put him on maybe at 10 o'clock

38:42

and let him cut the promo of the

38:45

length and the kind and fucking declare for

38:47

the Royal Rumble or whatever. And,

38:50

you know, the people gave

38:52

him an overwhelmingly positive reaction

38:54

even if there

38:57

were, you know, some of the signs and everything.

39:00

But then if Cody had

39:02

somehow been at

39:04

the end of the show, I'm just again making

39:06

this up out of my ass, would

39:09

they have remembered it better if

39:11

Cody won his match or had

39:13

saved someone or done

39:15

something where he's standing there kind of

39:18

huffing and puffing at the end and

39:20

the fucking music plays again and we get punk

39:22

and Cody staring at each other? Or,

39:26

you know, or end with the Randy Orton match?

39:30

Or maybe we get punk and Orton staring at you?

39:32

I don't know. Punk and anybody staring at each other?

39:34

Just give me something. Didn't he need to be on

39:36

that show before? 1050. Yes, well

39:41

that's what I mean even if they saved

39:43

it for last, my god, give him 15

39:45

fucking minutes to let him milk the entrance,

39:47

those people would have chanted punk

39:49

for fucking... they didn't get a

39:52

chance because he couldn't milk anything because that's

39:54

all he had the time he had to say

39:56

whatever he had to say in. I'm

40:01

saying what he said was

40:03

good need to be more of it. It

40:05

was short and oddly placed and

40:08

there was no, there

40:11

was no, like you said, tease or direction or

40:13

give me, give me something,

40:15

declare something. You

40:17

know, what are you going to do here, baby? That'd

40:21

be an interesting wrinkle to this

40:23

whole thing. If he keeps coming out and doing promos

40:25

and he says nothing, but

40:27

then like all the drama happens online.

40:30

Like, did you hear a rumor about punk? I

40:32

mean, that's what happened to the pay-per-view. He came

40:34

out and waved to the fans. Rollins had a

40:37

meltdown. McIntyre is upset. All the drama, a lot

40:39

of it, the fans creating in their own heads,

40:42

made the story bigger. How

40:44

did he keep coming out there just being, I

40:46

love all you, it's so great to be home. That's

40:49

it. And then like you keep

40:51

expecting him to address all the

40:53

other drama. They didn't address anything. Like

40:56

Rollins quickly shut that down and that

40:58

was it. Nothing else really referencing what

41:01

happened. And that was

41:03

a slow build if there ever was one. Yeah.

41:05

That's the thing when he said some

41:07

people aren't happy and

41:10

blah, blah, blah. Almost everybody welcomed me back,

41:12

but some are afraid of the Trinity. He

41:14

could have, he could

41:16

have winked and said, Hey sass, how you doing

41:18

baby? Or, you know, give me some more. He

41:21

didn't, he mentioned people's

41:23

names in the promo, but I don't

41:26

think it's anybody that he's going to

41:28

be mad at. He mentioned Dusty and

41:30

the wise man and it

41:33

just, yeah. And after two hours

41:35

and 52 minutes of

41:37

other people talking

41:39

about what they're going to do and talking

41:41

to each other about how much they don't

41:43

like each other, but

41:45

not actually really do anything about it. It

41:49

just, it was, yeah, it's kinda. And

41:54

that was a highlighter. And

41:56

that was the highlighter. But

42:02

I mean they've still got... they're

42:05

making billions of dollars with this boring

42:07

shit because just because these other assholes

42:09

came get their hands

42:11

together around their fucking ass on the

42:13

first try and get out of their

42:15

own way. And

42:18

so all they have to do is just come and send

42:20

these people out to talk to us. Do

42:22

you want to talk briefly about the rest of

42:24

Raw or where are we going here? Yeah,

42:27

I guess we could talk about the rest of this program.

42:29

I will say that I heard that and I don't have

42:31

anything in front of me, but right now I

42:34

think CM Punk's the top merch mover in WWE

42:36

and he's still in the top 10 for AEW

42:39

at the same moment. Yes. And

42:41

I think at one point

42:44

wasn't he number one on both

42:46

sides? Oh, I don't

42:48

know. I don't know if he was at the same time. I don't know.

42:50

Somebody said that on Twitter. Don't quote me then.

42:52

He better duck from all those royalty checks I'm

42:55

gonna be flying out his head. Jesus. Well,

42:57

he's gonna be in fear of his life. He's

42:59

gonna get a paper cut. Well,

43:02

no, hey, Tony's checks

43:04

aren't rubber at least so they wouldn't bounce

43:06

off your head, but nevertheless,

43:09

so the rest of Raw

43:11

and I just have some observations. I took a

43:14

lot of notes and

43:16

I'm not gonna probably repeat most of

43:18

them because it's just so

43:20

and so sad and so and so sad and

43:22

such and such said. By

43:25

the way, Wade Barrett,

43:29

we've talked about all of the and

43:31

once again, we don't want to insult our

43:33

friends across the pond. You better not. But

43:36

we've talked about how that Osprey

43:39

sounds like he's got a mouthful of

43:41

marbles and he's just a he's

43:44

already punch drunk like fucking two

43:47

ton Tony Galento and

43:49

the other guy, the Q-tip fella, he sounds

43:51

like this. Max

43:55

Sabre Jr.? Yeah, yeah, and

43:57

they're all like they've been castrated

43:59

or. squeezed amongst the genitals

44:01

somehow and fucking Nigel's

44:04

overhand to it Robin Lee. He

44:06

doesn't know why. Tony Khan's checks

44:08

are not made of rubber. Rubber.

44:13

Wade Barrett has

44:16

a man's voice. He sounds like Sean

44:18

Connery. Oh, give me a fucking break.

44:21

I'm not necessarily saying he's a

44:23

good announcer, but no,

44:26

but it's not like a child

44:28

if you heard that voice- he

44:30

should do voiceovers. He's got the

44:32

oomph in his British accent and sounds

44:35

like a man. Well,

44:39

it's nice having masculine-sounding announcers, I

44:41

guess, but it stands out especially

44:43

when they're usually next to like,

44:45

hello, I'm the whispering, falling guy.

44:47

And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, look

44:50

at that ombar, he's mad. I

44:52

mean, he stands up, but he also is

44:54

a bit over the top and bad. Was

44:56

that your giant haystacks voice, Wade? That's my

44:58

Wade Barrett, look at what he's doing in

45:00

there. Oh, oh my god,

45:02

I think I'm gonna come. Don't come

45:04

on me, I'm calling the

45:07

match. That's every fucking match of these

45:09

people. Oh,

45:11

oh look at what he's doing in there. Oh,

45:13

we're on roll. Can you imagine,

45:16

I don't know how

45:18

to say this, either Wade Barrett

45:20

doing Hawk the Road Warriors promo

45:22

or vice versa? That

45:25

would be even more fabulous. I'm

45:27

a neo-maxi-zoomed Jweeby. Ooh,

45:33

what a rush. Well,

45:35

pudding. It

45:37

seems to me that it seems

45:39

to be whatever

45:41

else Hawk would say. Tell

45:45

him, Paul. That wasn't bad,

45:47

whatever else Hawk would say. Where's

45:51

Jake? I want to go party

45:53

with Jake. Do

45:56

I sound like Hawk now? No,

45:58

actually you sound like half the- locker room in

46:00

1986, but nevertheless. So

46:04

the main point of the open

46:06

was punk is going to be in the ring

46:08

with a live microphone tonight at

46:10

the open at eight o'clock Eastern. And

46:12

we got it at 10 52, but

46:14

nevertheless, they had Orton

46:17

in the ring for a live promo,

46:19

which they should have because he's a

46:21

massive return also in more ways than

46:23

one he's fucking Jack and

46:26

he's apparently lived in

46:28

the goddamn weight room for

46:30

the past year and a half or whatever. Uh,

46:33

but he, he's being a huge

46:35

baby face because he has to be saying, I

46:37

love you to the fans, he's came

46:40

back to help his friend Cody because

46:42

he had never been part in a

46:44

war games match invented by dusty part

46:46

of wrestling history. Because

46:49

the people were going to be so happy to see

46:51

him back. Cause he's a fucking star. He couldn't be

46:53

a heel. He might be in

46:55

the future, but not right now. And

46:58

I'd forgotten again, he

47:02

comes from a different area. He comes from OVW.

47:04

He comes from the early 2000s when you actually

47:06

had to be able to do a

47:08

fucking promo

47:14

and so he can speak, even

47:16

if they've told him his topics and told him

47:19

the point to make and

47:21

what's going to go on. He

47:23

sounds like he's saying the shit

47:25

instead of memorized and scared and

47:28

fucking reciting. Right? So I

47:30

don't know whether, you

47:32

know, Orton's getting better or

47:34

just everybody else is fucking falling behind, but

47:36

then him and Rhea Ripley, boom, she looks incredible.

47:43

She's dressing the gimmick. She's a star. This

47:47

is, this is why that people are watching

47:50

this show when these people are just standing there fucking

47:52

talking to each other. Cause everybody's

47:54

a fucking star. And

48:01

she says, hey, I

48:04

can't believe you let your return get upstaged.

48:06

The landscape has changed around here

48:09

and the bloodline is not

48:11

as fallen or is out of the way, whatever

48:14

the fuck she said. And the judgment

48:16

day runs things around here. So you

48:18

better watch out. And he tells her,

48:20

well, guess what mommy,

48:22

daddy's back and the place

48:24

goes crazy. And

48:27

nobody tells Randy Orton what to do. So

48:29

of course now he's the enemy of the

48:31

judgment day. And that's when JD,

48:33

Funco and Dominic jump

48:36

or if Brian, Brian,

48:40

if you were going to send two people out of

48:42

that group to jump on Randy Orton, which dude you

48:44

pick? Jim, I'd

48:47

send, uh, I'd send any two, obviously

48:50

Damien priest and Finn Beller. Well,

48:52

yeah. Well, they said JD and

48:54

Dominic who if JD was on

48:57

Dominic's shoulders and like the old

48:59

chicken fight fucking position, then

49:01

maybe that he could look Orton in the eyes.

49:03

So Randy routed them

49:05

and RKO JD and challenged Dominic

49:08

for later on. And

49:10

that's obviously, we want to have Randy

49:12

get a nice win over somebody that

49:14

has heat that it doesn't hurt them

49:17

to lose a match to keep

49:19

that heat. So that's what they've set up and

49:21

that's fine, but it just tickled me that here,

49:24

they said the fucking B

49:26

team out yet. Then

49:29

they did this tag

49:31

team thing and I'm not, I

49:33

didn't watch half

49:35

of it because I don't know why anybody would

49:37

have watched any of it. Can I stop you?

49:39

But yes, go ahead. What are your

49:41

thoughts on a Randy Orton return or on

49:43

the Randy Orton return promo? Was it what

49:45

it needed to be? Did it leave you

49:48

wanting more? Yes, no, see that's the thing.

49:50

Well, I'm sorry. I forgot to give you

49:52

my analysis. I was rushing to

49:54

get to the next fucking monologue. This

49:57

is what it needed to be because everybody wanted

49:59

to hear. from Randy and they love

50:01

seeing him in the ring with Rhea

50:03

Ripley and them going back and forth

50:05

and him telling her off even though

50:07

they like her and the idea that okay

50:10

now we know and we

50:12

are pretty certain

50:15

that we're gonna see more of Orton than

50:17

the various people in the Judgment Day or

50:19

whatever the there was purpose to it and

50:22

it didn't just wrap up at the end of the

50:25

promo it led to the match later on so we're

50:27

gonna get to see Randy in action that's this

50:30

was fine he didn't need to I think

50:34

the people would you think it's fair to

50:36

say that the people are

50:38

happy that Orton is back just

50:42

like they're happy that Punk is back and

50:45

they may have wanted to see what Orton was

50:47

gonna do but they didn't necessarily look forward to

50:49

the promo like oh Orton's gonna

50:51

speak they want to know what's gonna go

50:53

on but he could have wrestled or he could have run in

50:57

everybody's want to hear Punk talk because Punk

51:00

is more known for fucking talking

51:02

and saying you know shocking and

51:04

or explosive things than Orton so

51:07

this was fine he came out he thanked

51:10

everybody did his thing said

51:12

what he needed to say interacted with the

51:14

Judgment Day sets up his match that's fine

51:18

and it was like if we were 20 minutes in he

51:21

got the guy that and

51:24

I'm not knocking Randy cuz he's a fucking

51:26

superstar but the guy that everybody

51:28

was expecting to hear from to

51:30

specifically speak got

51:32

six minutes and fucking the guy that everybody

51:34

would have been happy to do whatever got

51:37

20 see what I'm saying

51:42

possibly not you know I do I mean I think

51:45

you want to hear what Punk had to say with Orton

51:48

people just want to see what he's gonna do more than

51:50

yeah matches or hear what he's gonna say what is he

51:52

gonna do he's like punk he could be

51:55

a healer face very easily

51:57

well and and Orton's appeal is

51:59

who Is he going to RKO? Not

52:01

what's he going to say? Right?

52:04

It's not the same genre

52:06

of appeal. Anyway, the

52:09

tag team thing. They,

52:12

we talked about it earlier where they, the two

52:14

teams start, the winner of that face of the

52:16

next team, the winner of that face of the

52:18

next team, when all the teams are in there

52:20

and whoever wins the last one is the winner.

52:24

And Otis and

52:26

Tizawa started against Champa and

52:28

Johnny Same Face. So,

52:32

and by the way, if you do hear some banging

52:34

and pounding in my background, it's

52:36

my propane people making sure I don't freeze

52:38

my formerly fat ass off this winter. See,

52:40

this is kind of where they lost me

52:42

right away. Cause I thought the opening promo

52:44

segment with Rhea and Orton was

52:46

good. And then it went to

52:48

some backstage comedy thing. And then

52:50

it was a tag gauntlet started with these. Oh

52:52

yeah. Yeah. What the job guys actually were

52:55

in the back doing the comedy and then jelly

52:58

roll, who apparently is a country

53:00

music star and

53:02

he's, he's, he's bigger than

53:05

Otis. He's like fucking 400 pounds with

53:07

a beard and a tattooed face. I

53:09

haven't paid attention to country music in

53:11

a while, but I was

53:13

not aware that we had evolved as

53:16

a society to where the country music stars

53:18

are the ones with the tattooed faces. Have

53:21

I missed a trend over the last couple of

53:23

years? Yeah. You missed when George

53:25

Jones went right off the road. Oh my God.

53:28

He was anyway. Um, so,

53:31

and then yeah. So it's a nothing

53:33

match, right? So I skipped through that and then.

53:36

Champa and Same Face advance against

53:39

Shanky and Spanky and Vere

53:42

McMahon. What's their fucking names? I

53:45

like Shanky and Spanky. They are, um,

53:47

oh, I have, I didn't watch this part of it. In,

53:50

in the sheer is the name of the

53:52

team, but there are the former Shanky or

53:54

Spanky and the former flunky

53:56

or skunky. I don't know. The other guy had a

53:59

name too. The other guy. Mr. Mayhall! No, the

54:01

other guy was in the Mansoor. No,

54:04

the Mansoor was in the Marseille- Mar-Sail- Mar-Sail-

54:06

Marceau models. I don't know. Remember before they

54:08

were a tag team in the show, they

54:10

had that one guy that was doing promo

54:13

videos for the one guy and then he

54:15

had like two matches. What was

54:17

his name? Uhhhh.

54:21

Well you see why I wasn't paying attention to this yet.

54:24

Right. But then Ciampa

54:27

and Same Face prevailed again and then

54:29

they wrestled the Creed brothers who have

54:31

just been brought up from NXT and

54:33

they weren't in NXT when we quit

54:35

watching NXT a couple years ago. And

54:40

I have heard, I'm not

54:42

going to finger anybody specifically but I believe

54:45

it's everybody's favorite AEW

54:47

mouth organ that

54:49

has put these guys over but

54:51

I've heard that supposedly that they're

54:53

good or that they have potential

54:55

or that everybody's excited about their

54:58

progress or whatever. So I'm going

55:00

to watch the Creed

55:02

brothers and see what's going on here. They

55:06

were hotshot amateurs. I don't know the level

55:08

of their amateur credentials

55:10

but apparently it was legitimate and

55:13

I'm not trying to downplay that. They're wearing the

55:15

amateur singlet type of deal

55:17

in one guy's case and they

55:20

have that look about them. They look like

55:22

two narcs. They're just two really

55:25

fucking white looking fucking college

55:27

kid looking fucking narc looking

55:30

fucking amateur wrestling kids. Right.

55:34

And that's the problem. Part

55:36

of the problem. They're

55:38

great legitimate athletes and

55:40

they are in good shape for being

55:43

legitimate athletes but there's no physique

55:46

here in the land of the physiques. There's

55:48

no tan. There's the CPA

55:52

haircut where I want them to

55:54

do my taxes but I'm not

55:56

particularly attracted to them

55:58

as a... charismatic

56:01

celebrity, there's no facials.

56:04

The one brother is bigger of a Brutus,

56:07

I think, and

56:09

he looks like a bully

56:11

on Leave It to Beaver.

56:13

And they're not

56:16

natural workers. I

56:18

think they're trying to recreate,

56:20

not they meaning

56:23

the Creed brothers, but maybe they meaning

56:25

the office trying to in some way

56:27

recreate the appeal of the Steiner brothers.

56:30

But this ain't it because they do

56:32

all the suplexes and the throws.

56:34

The problem is the Steiners both

56:38

looked the part and were strong

56:40

enough to put

56:42

you where you needed to go safely. These guys

56:44

are strong enough to put you where they want

56:46

you, but I'm not sure that they're always fucking...

56:48

So when that one guy Brutus

56:51

jumps off the top while

56:54

the opponent is on Julius,

56:56

his brother's shoulders like a

56:58

doomsday device, and

57:00

Brutus jumps off the top and

57:03

just hip... What was

57:06

it? Jumping hip attack for you

57:09

80s Japanese fans. He just blasts

57:11

his ass into the guy's fucking

57:14

chest and face and falls on

57:17

top of them. And he fella, he did

57:19

it two or three times in this deal

57:22

and he fell on the

57:24

guy every time. And they're

57:27

pushing him apparently to the moon because they beat

57:29

Ciampa in the same face. And

57:32

then here came the new day and I'm

57:35

thinking, okay, well this is where it ends because as

57:38

bad as we don't like the

57:40

new day, they're established stars and

57:42

they beat the fucking new day.

57:44

And I mean in some places,

57:48

again, it doesn't work for everybody. We

57:51

had a couple

57:53

of hotshot amateurs in OVW

57:55

at one time, including probably

57:58

a guy named Brian Keck that

58:00

could have given Brock a little tussle

58:05

but he was fucking bland

58:07

as fucking unsalted eggs. He

58:10

would just... And

58:13

these guys looked like they were in

58:15

a second-week wrestling school because they're doing

58:18

athletic moves but they have no

58:20

fluidity, no timing, no... They're

58:23

not natural workers and they're not

58:25

moving fluidly in the

58:28

ring. I

58:30

think honestly as a team these guys

58:32

ain't gonna make it. Now

58:34

Brutus is a long shot if

58:37

a personality bulb ever comes on

58:40

but otherwise I'm sorry but

58:43

I've seen guys more impressive than this

58:45

in that system that did not get

58:47

anywhere and I was shocked

58:50

when I saw this after I'd heard some

58:53

of the publicity out. I

58:55

mean did you see any of them or did

58:57

you give a shit about any of this? I

58:59

watched a little bit after the new day were

59:01

eliminated and it was all right. I thought they

59:03

were okay. I've seen just very

59:05

very little of them in NXT. I

59:10

was looking at it on the basis of if

59:14

these guys are now just come up from

59:16

developmental, what would I have been doing with

59:18

them in OVW or how would I have

59:22

rated them as they say or whatever

59:24

and whoa I'm

59:26

sorry. So then the

59:28

final match was the

59:31

Creed's against Imperium, Kaiser

59:34

and DaVinci and

59:36

here's what I'm talking about and I

59:39

know I look with a little more fine

59:42

point on my pencil than most people do

59:45

but at one point Julius

59:48

is selling and

59:50

he went to the corner and he

59:52

rolled out on the apron without tagging

59:55

his brother Brutus that was standing there

59:57

on the apron so Brutus just stepped

59:59

in. into the ring on his

1:00:02

own and the referee walks up

1:00:05

and reminds him, hey, you didn't tag. So

1:00:08

Julius, the guy that's still legal but

1:00:10

had rolled out on the apron, stood

1:00:13

up on the apron and tagged Brutus

1:00:16

who had just gotten in illegally and

1:00:19

they got back out, switched

1:00:22

places again so they were back where

1:00:25

they started from. And

1:00:27

then the guy that was trying to roll out

1:00:29

and tag out to begin with but forgot to

1:00:31

tag, just started doing shit

1:00:33

again. Where the fuck was

1:00:35

he going to begin with then? Where

1:00:38

the fuck was he going to begin with

1:00:40

then? See

1:00:43

that's what I'm looking at. I'm

1:00:46

sorry I can't help it, it's 50

1:00:48

fucking years. I

1:00:50

can't not see this shit. Give

1:00:52

me a goddamn degree of difficulty of five at

1:00:55

an execution of ten instead of the other way

1:00:57

around is what I've told aspiring

1:00:59

auditioning wrestlers in training camps

1:01:01

and seminars and schools for

1:01:03

the past 25 years. So

1:01:07

they hit DaVinci with their finish which

1:01:09

is the big guy was landing right

1:01:12

fucking on top of him from the top

1:01:14

rope one two three and would ask first

1:01:17

or back first or just however and anyway

1:01:20

the tag team thing went 30 minutes

1:01:23

no commercials for once for

1:01:25

once they didn't go two

1:01:27

minutes to the break. What'd

1:01:30

you think about the fact that first hour was commercial

1:01:32

free? Well and then

1:01:34

they and then it put punk during that hour and

1:01:36

then they wasted it that's why I was about to

1:01:38

say I remember we used

1:01:40

to do that back in the good old

1:01:43

days of the attitude era and the Monday

1:01:45

night wars a commercial free was a big

1:01:47

deal but it wasn't like Vince

1:01:49

never came to us said okay we're not

1:01:51

gonna have a commercial in the first hour

1:01:54

so therefore just find

1:01:56

some shit to fill some time just

1:01:59

write some shit. down that'll take a while

1:02:02

that we don't have to break away from. No, it

1:02:05

was... Here's fucking this and that

1:02:08

and a star and a fucking thing.

1:02:10

You still had to fill the

1:02:13

time if they were going for a

1:02:15

number by just

1:02:17

artificially inflating this thing because they

1:02:19

won't have people theoretically

1:02:24

switching out for the first hour because

1:02:27

there's not a chance to. They're not

1:02:29

leaving the action but a lot of this

1:02:32

action was easily left. Anyway,

1:02:36

moving alongward. The

1:02:40

Judgment Day was in the back talking to each

1:02:42

other and Priest was upset at the rest of

1:02:44

them because he was the leader in the war

1:02:47

games and they lost the match so that he

1:02:49

is upset at them because he knows that they

1:02:51

want to say something to him but the

1:02:54

other ones tell him

1:02:56

that there's no worries about that and

1:02:59

we should go check on JD McFunco

1:03:02

and off they go. We're at 9

1:03:04

o'clock already so now

1:03:06

Cody can come and talk to us and

1:03:10

he thanks Sammy and Jay and

1:03:12

Seth and Randy and the

1:03:15

whole Hee Haw Gang for helping him win

1:03:17

his daddy's match, baby. He

1:03:21

refers to the other story, The

1:03:24

Return of CM Punk to which

1:03:26

Cody says welcome back. So

1:03:30

that would lead you

1:03:32

to believe that they

1:03:35

will be on the same side of

1:03:37

things but we don't know from Punk's

1:03:41

standpoint. Then

1:03:44

basically Cody announces with all stories going on

1:03:46

he wants to make big news, he is

1:03:48

going to be the first one to announce

1:03:51

his entering or

1:03:53

he's going to be competing in the

1:03:55

Royal Rumble and as

1:03:59

soon as that happens the lights go out

1:04:02

and there's a spotlight in

1:04:04

the ring on Cody and I'm

1:04:06

like, what the fuck now is

1:04:08

this? I can't remember who makes the lights go

1:04:11

out in the WWE, right? I'm thinking, who is

1:04:13

it? And

1:04:15

up on the screen, pop shaky

1:04:17

Nakamura and I'm all for fuck's

1:04:20

sake. God damn it. This

1:04:22

fucking guy, he is

1:04:25

going to torment me. He's

1:04:28

my new pockets in the WWE. How

1:04:31

the fuck? Don't say that. That's

1:04:33

not fair. Pockets. God

1:04:37

damn, he has been weird

1:04:40

and subpar for several years and

1:04:43

now suddenly he's in every main

1:04:45

eventer's fucking face and

1:04:47

he looks like he's broken in half.

1:04:50

What is he? I've asked this before. How old

1:04:53

is he? 53, 54. He's like

1:04:55

39. Well,

1:04:57

he's had a hard life as Mama Cornette

1:04:59

would say. But

1:05:03

anyway, he was on the screen doing

1:05:05

a, what are you laughing at? I don't even know what to say

1:05:08

to you. Every time I've met that guy. I

1:05:10

think he's done it like, and how old is he? Are

1:05:13

you denying that Mama Cornette used to say, well,

1:05:15

he or she has led a hard life when

1:05:17

they saw somebody that looked like

1:05:19

they were ready to be broken in half

1:05:22

by a strong wind? I'm denying that Nakamura

1:05:24

looks that old. Well,

1:05:27

are you denying that there are all the

1:05:29

things to Cody? And

1:05:31

then suddenly they shoot, the camera

1:05:34

goes back to Cody in the ring and

1:05:36

they're shaky behind him in the ring and

1:05:38

Cody turns around like a, he

1:05:41

turns around, where's he gonna

1:05:43

go? He's looking at

1:05:45

the entryway, which is also the

1:05:47

exitway. The Vomitorium, as they

1:05:49

say. He turns around to go walk over

1:05:51

until the announcer's something at the desk. He

1:05:54

can't get out that way. So

1:05:57

he turns around right into Shaggy's face and

1:05:59

blows the ring. red mist in his

1:06:01

goddamn face. And

1:06:04

Cody sells it big. And so

1:06:06

now we got, has Nakamura been

1:06:08

misting people? I

1:06:11

thought that was all the Japanese girls

1:06:13

in the WWE and Julia Hart and

1:06:15

fucking Kabuki. It was

1:06:17

Kabuki. It was Muda. It

1:06:20

appears in WWE now, if you're from Japan,

1:06:22

you can do it. In AEW, it's just

1:06:25

if you need some gimmick help, you can do it. Cause

1:06:28

well, Julia Hart, but it didn't melt. Sky

1:06:31

blue and Malachi Black. Sky blue, Malachi

1:06:33

Black was doing it. Did Jericho

1:06:35

do it? No Jericho was throwing fire,

1:06:37

not spitting fire. Yeah. Cause he's a

1:06:39

wizard and an arsonist. Uh,

1:06:42

well if he's setting people on fire and

1:06:45

that's what an arsonist does, ipso fatso, there

1:06:47

you go. Was this a good segment for

1:06:49

an arsonist? Did this segment let you on

1:06:51

fire? No, I was

1:06:53

pretty tepid. I was pretty tepid over that.

1:06:55

I'm glad Cody's going to be in the

1:06:57

rumble. I'm not looking forward to Cody working

1:06:59

with Nakamura. I

1:07:02

bet you that'd be good. I bet you anything

1:07:04

Nakamura, well, this is not really

1:07:06

good praise, but as anything that you've seen with

1:07:08

Nakamura that you've knocked, you will like

1:07:10

this more than anything else. I

1:07:12

will, I will like, I will hate this less

1:07:14

than I've hated the other stuff he's done is

1:07:16

what you're saying. And Cody will make this good

1:07:20

for you. Merlin the magician, huh?

1:07:22

For you. Yes. All right. Just for me.

1:07:25

Doug. All right. Yeah. As Dusty once said,

1:07:28

make it good. All

1:07:31

right. Then we're continuing in

1:07:33

this program. We've had a

1:07:35

lot of talk and we've had the tag team

1:07:37

Gaga, which just drug and drug and drug. Well,

1:07:39

now we get Bronson Reed and Igor the Viking.

1:07:44

And then we got the girls arguing

1:07:46

in the back and then we got

1:07:48

Zoe Starks versus refrigerator Jax. And

1:07:51

I must, did you, I had to watch

1:07:53

the bonsai drop on the

1:07:55

refrigerator to see if she was still just

1:07:58

landed just willing. with the

1:08:01

gluteus maximi all over the

1:08:03

massive up-of-frontal

1:08:06

protuberances of the other

1:08:08

competitors. And

1:08:10

no, she didn't. She landed a

1:08:12

safe bonsai drop with

1:08:14

her feet flat on the mat and

1:08:17

her ample glutei did land

1:08:19

on the girls midsection but

1:08:21

not in an unprofessional way.

1:08:23

And you know

1:08:25

what she did then? Right

1:08:28

as I said,

1:08:31

well she didn't potato her with that one.

1:08:34

She stood up and as she turned around

1:08:36

to drag the girl

1:08:38

out and cover her, instead of

1:08:40

stepping over her head, she kicked

1:08:42

Zoey Stark right in the side of the face

1:08:45

with her left foot. Bam!

1:08:52

Bam! Oh

1:08:54

my god! So that was a brief wrestling

1:08:56

break in this in

1:08:58

this night of interviews.

1:09:04

And then we got Seth Franklin Rollins who

1:09:08

got the CM Punk chance because they

1:09:10

were chatting for who they'd like to

1:09:12

hear from any old time now and

1:09:15

they knew that Seth had been

1:09:17

on his little deal

1:09:19

at the Survivor Series.

1:09:22

So they're crapping in his

1:09:24

post toasties. And

1:09:26

Seth says, I don't want to spend

1:09:28

one ounce of energy on somebody that doesn't

1:09:31

matter. And he

1:09:33

starts talking about how he's built his

1:09:35

world title into the most important one.

1:09:37

And what universe is this world

1:09:39

title that he's had for four months or whatever.

1:09:42

But nevertheless, Seth

1:09:47

Franklin is supposed to be a baby face,

1:09:49

right? So we

1:09:51

got Cody who's saying, welcome CM Punk.

1:09:53

And we got Seth Franklin who's

1:09:56

saying, ah this fucking guy. So we have

1:09:59

a been locked into a corner here.

1:10:01

We don't know which way this is going. A

1:10:04

lot of baby faces though. Cody,

1:10:07

right now Randy, Jay

1:10:09

Uso, Sammy, Punk

1:10:11

Sofar, Rollins. It's a

1:10:13

lot of baby faces. Well, but baby faces

1:10:15

sometimes they make the world go around. They

1:10:18

make the t-shirts sell. Whose voice was that?

1:10:21

I don't know. I have no idea.

1:10:24

Possibly a little Gary Hart if he was Puerto

1:10:26

Rican. I don't know. But

1:10:29

anyway, so Seth doesn't really say

1:10:31

much more before he was

1:10:33

going to go to Adam Pierce. And he was gave or

1:10:36

he said he went to Adam Pierce. He was going to say

1:10:40

what he went to him for when Drew

1:10:42

McIntyre's music came up and out comes

1:10:44

Drew. And

1:10:48

he shakes Seth's hand and he

1:10:51

congratulates him. And

1:10:53

he says the Judgment Day's plan was shite and

1:10:55

he didn't get his hands on Jay like he

1:10:57

wanted. So now he's going to focus on the

1:10:59

world title. And they

1:11:01

proceeded to talk to each other

1:11:03

back and forth for a long

1:11:05

fucking time. Was

1:11:08

this really long, Brian? Yes.

1:11:13

Yes. You are correct. The whole show

1:11:15

and then the specific segment. Yeah. And

1:11:18

I don't

1:11:23

know what to say about it because it's just back

1:11:26

and forth. They just talked and talked and talked. And

1:11:28

finally, Seth thinks

1:11:30

that, you know, hey, you might deserve

1:11:32

a rematch, but other people

1:11:34

deserve a shot first. As a matter of fact,

1:11:36

I'm defending the title on Raw next week. Well,

1:11:39

who is that opponent

1:11:41

that you're defending against? And then Seth, who's

1:11:44

been standing there looking at him now, he

1:11:46

gets all sheepish. He goes, well, I'm defending

1:11:48

against Jay Uso. And

1:11:51

of course, Drew don't like him, no Jay

1:11:53

Uso. So the people pop and

1:11:55

Drew's pissed and Drew then draws

1:11:59

back. does the old deal, he

1:12:01

headbutts, but he headbutts

1:12:04

in a safe and professional manner,

1:12:06

not skull to skull. Fucking

1:12:09

Seth out of nowhere, but he busts

1:12:11

his own self open on the... because

1:12:14

Seth had the championship belt over

1:12:17

his shoulder and that's the side that Drew

1:12:19

went to and he fucking cut himself open

1:12:21

on the belt, which actually worked. It

1:12:24

added to it because it added

1:12:26

to the visual. He headbutted the belt.

1:12:29

Yes, but he didn't

1:12:31

mean to do that though, but

1:12:34

it worked. And

1:12:36

then he started kicking his shit out of Seth and

1:12:38

screaming, are you trying to make a fool out of

1:12:40

me? And here come

1:12:42

Jey Uso's music and he

1:12:45

hits the ring. And did you see what I was talking

1:12:48

about the other day? The

1:12:50

rock comeback? The

1:12:53

open hand slap punches? Yeah.

1:12:55

But I mean the... He was doing the rock

1:12:57

stuff. Yeah. None of you thought it, I noticed

1:12:59

it. He's hot dogging too much. He's like, look

1:13:01

at me, I'm the shit. Look at me, I'm

1:13:04

the shit. A little too much. It's too f...

1:13:07

And at some point, I

1:13:09

guarantee if the undertaker was a heel and the undertaker

1:13:12

had to stand there for that, the

1:13:14

undertaker would be having a discussion with Mr.

1:13:16

Uso about getting to the point in a

1:13:18

little more timely efficient manner. Then

1:13:20

having to meet, having to stand there while you

1:13:23

fucking draw back, spit in your hand, wave your

1:13:25

hand in the air and party like you just

1:13:27

don't care while you're doing your fucking MC

1:13:29

Hammer dance. And then

1:13:31

fucking slapping me in the face

1:13:34

and I'm gonna fly like a bird for you.

1:13:36

We're going to have to fucking

1:13:38

tighten this shit up a notch pal. Hammer

1:13:43

time. Stop it. Or

1:13:47

rewind it or whatever they say.

1:13:49

Stop. They say stop that. Well,

1:13:51

all right. Stop it. That'd be

1:13:54

the white version of the song.

1:13:56

Stop it. Stop it. Hammer time.

1:14:01

Well, back to the hammer times

1:14:04

in the head. Stop doing your

1:14:06

cousin rock shit, Jay. Anyway,

1:14:08

and then Jay and Seth Franklin superkick

1:14:11

McIntyre to the floor and Jay hands

1:14:13

Seth his belt and it was all

1:14:15

over. So that was about a 15-minute

1:14:18

conversation to get to that fucking

1:14:20

headbutt. Oh,

1:14:22

lordy, lordy, lordy. And

1:14:25

then they went to the back where Sammy

1:14:27

then... I'll tell you what, I wish

1:14:29

they'd put Sammy in the ring live instead of backstage

1:14:31

because he does a hell of a fucking chewout these

1:14:33

days. When he gets fired up, he's as good as

1:14:35

anyone there. This was the

1:14:38

mute, phony luchador. Hello

1:14:41

McFly. Hey, can we

1:14:43

make El Generico talk?

1:14:46

Oh god, no, I'd rather quit the

1:14:48

company first. Bing

1:14:50

bong. Anyway,

1:14:53

this is... Bing bong.

1:14:56

Bing bong calling. It'd

1:14:58

be ding dong, not bing bong. Bing bong, bing bong,

1:15:00

I don't know. I'm

1:15:03

not a goddamn doorbell man. You don't know

1:15:05

the sound of a doorbell makes it ding

1:15:07

dong, not bing bong. Bing bong. You

1:15:11

did not think it was bing bong. What?

1:15:15

Are you trying to call me a dingaling? Well,

1:15:20

bing bong, roll rolls on. Alrighty,

1:15:22

Sammy. Sammy was in the back and he chewed, drewed, and he was

1:15:24

in the back. Drew out

1:15:26

over what he just did. You're better than

1:15:28

this. You shouldn't act like

1:15:30

this. And so Drew said, well, maybe

1:15:32

you're right. And I'm

1:15:35

going to start working my way back to the top from

1:15:37

the bottom up. As a matter of fact, I'm going to

1:15:39

go to Adam Peirce to get a match to start

1:15:42

my way back to the top next week

1:15:44

against you. Ooh.

1:15:47

Dun dun dun dun. And

1:15:51

then we get Chelsea and Piper

1:15:53

against Natalia and Tegan. So

1:15:57

thankfully soon they were back to talking to

1:15:59

us. is now Jay is talking to

1:16:01

Orton and Jay apologizes to Orton

1:16:03

for all the terrible things that

1:16:06

the bloodline did to him. And Randy

1:16:08

said, by gons, by

1:16:10

gons, as long as you're out of the bloodline,

1:16:13

then we're good. So

1:16:16

again, you know, there's no ill

1:16:18

will here whatsoever. Apparently

1:16:21

they're going to become all friends wrestling over

1:16:24

here, except for the one guy that don't

1:16:27

like anybody anymore. And

1:16:29

then we got Randy Orton and Dominik Mysterio.

1:16:32

And this was

1:16:35

basically exactly what it needed

1:16:37

to be. Randy toyed with him, did

1:16:39

absolutely nothing that could be perceived as

1:16:41

something that might injure a human being.

1:16:45

Dominik ran him

1:16:47

into the stairs safely and got about 30

1:16:50

seconds of heat. And then Randy

1:16:52

made a comeback, DDT'd him, JD

1:16:55

pulled Dominik out on the floor,

1:16:57

Jelly Roll was back all

1:16:59

400 pounds of him. He's

1:17:03

a thoroughly dangerous man and an

1:17:05

undercover agent for the FBI. Didn't

1:17:07

Flair marry his daughter to that

1:17:09

guy? No, no,

1:17:11

that's he's the guy that joined

1:17:13

Flair's family has never won a

1:17:15

Grammy. Never

1:17:17

won a Grammy. So

1:17:19

Jelly Roll shoved JD down and then

1:17:22

shoved Dominik. And then Randy threw Dominik

1:17:24

onto the day. He just picked him

1:17:26

up and just boosted

1:17:28

him up and dropped him safely flat, but

1:17:30

just like a sack of shit on the

1:17:33

announced desk and then did it again. And

1:17:36

then DDT'd JD

1:17:39

and then Dominik hit a 619

1:17:41

on Randy, but missed a splash.

1:17:43

Randy hit the RKO123 and

1:17:46

it didn't hurt Dominik a bit. It was good

1:17:49

for him to be in that company and

1:17:51

that's his gimmick. And JD

1:17:54

is the assistant

1:17:56

stooge now. And

1:17:58

we got to see Orton. win a match now

1:18:01

that he's returned while at the same time

1:18:05

not risking any injury

1:18:07

to him as he's first come back. One

1:18:10

more thing and then Brian, hop in with

1:18:12

your thoughts. People

1:18:16

might say, why didn't they milk Orton's

1:18:18

first match back for pay-per-view?

1:18:23

They haven't wasted a serious

1:18:25

match for Orton

1:18:28

yet by giving this

1:18:31

match away on free TV

1:18:34

because again it's Dominic and

1:18:36

it works with him but

1:18:38

it's not like we always knew he

1:18:40

was going to come

1:18:42

back. This is not a surprise. It's

1:18:45

not a landmark event. Punk, his

1:18:47

first match back I

1:18:50

believe needs to be on goddamn pay-per-view because

1:18:52

for ten years it was like this

1:18:54

will not happen. So

1:18:56

that's the difference. Go ahead, I'm sorry Brian. No,

1:18:59

I have nothing to say or add to this

1:19:01

match. Well, in that case

1:19:03

we'll move on because it's now over. We

1:19:05

were at 10.50 and that

1:19:08

match only went, well

1:19:10

they went what? One minute to the

1:19:12

break I believe. Hold

1:19:14

on, I think I notated that. Yes,

1:19:17

one minute to the break and then they came

1:19:19

back and Dominic got 30 seconds heat and

1:19:21

then they did the finish. So they were already

1:19:23

running late to get

1:19:25

that match in and then we get punk

1:19:28

out at eight minutes till the

1:19:31

hour. So that's where we came

1:19:33

in, right? But

1:19:36

I just don't, I can't, they

1:19:39

could have done some really cool

1:19:41

shit with people

1:19:43

that you actually care about on this

1:19:45

program and instead they just had everybody

1:19:47

come out and talk to each other.

1:19:50

And I know that's working for them but

1:19:53

couldn't they have given us something a little special since they

1:19:55

knew they were going to have some extra folks watching. long

1:20:00

ass boring show like that when it's over with you

1:20:02

have two options you can go to sleep or you

1:20:04

have something to eat and it is

1:20:06

the time of year where we have a wonderful

1:20:08

offer for post raw

1:20:11

food or any food delivered

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right to you that we could offer. Post raw

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food wouldn't that be cooked? Also

1:20:20

I gotta be honest with you. I promise

1:20:22

you food that can be cooked is what

1:20:24

I'm saying. When you said a good

1:20:26

night's sleep or something to eat I thought we

1:20:29

were gonna have to do a commercial where we

1:20:31

were sleeping in the box of awesome but anyway

1:20:33

I'll tell you what people do like to

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eat these days I understand it's never fallen

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out of favor in almost any

1:20:40

environment in any society in any situation

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most people like to eat and the

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holidays is a time where you

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want to eat even more and you

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that. And the difference between what you

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is a line that we should definitely.

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1:27:01

the drama continues and Oh,

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hold on a second that dad

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gum teenage hot rodder lives down

1:27:09

the street in the subdivision is

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Hot rodden is daggum souped up

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hate these these hot rodders.

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We hot rodders We ought to outlaw that

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here in these parts. Go ahead these teenage

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hot rodders This is a program you've had

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in other points and and and plus they

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keep having these daggum beach parties And then

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they're in there they got blankets and they're

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playing bingo They're playing the

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rock and roll music out there the beach boys

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Well that now we have a good transition those

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beach boys are the ones that turn Charles Manson

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toward the devil well, of course

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if any promotion is

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AEW is the beach blanket bingo

1:27:48

of professional wrestling and Jim

1:27:50

let's talk some AEW news once

1:27:53

CM Punk debuted Saturday night at the

1:27:55

Survivor Series Naturally

1:27:57

Tony Khan was inundated Twitter.

1:28:00

I guess

1:28:02

you could say Pro-CM-Pon. Fans,

1:28:09

people who aren't fans but a

1:28:11

lot, seemingly overwhelmingly a lot of

1:28:14

fans that did like him when

1:28:16

Tony posted about the football game. It was

1:28:19

all comments and reply about

1:28:21

CM Punk. Monday

1:28:23

night Brian Danielson

1:28:25

put out a tweet, 6.51

1:28:29

p.m. again the night

1:28:31

that CM Punk debuts on Raw, my

1:28:34

dad always told me the right

1:28:37

thing is often the hardest

1:28:39

thing to do. It won't

1:28:42

always make the most money, it won't

1:28:45

always be the most popular, but

1:28:48

it's still the right thing to do. Hashtag

1:28:52

AEW with a

1:28:55

heart emoji followed by

1:28:57

hashtag bankruptcy, there's not advice. That

1:29:00

was the tweet from Brian

1:29:02

Danielson and it was vague

1:29:04

enough that people are- Cryptic,

1:29:06

cryptic even. That's right. Any

1:29:09

thoughts on the initial tweet here? Well,

1:29:12

you're setting up the timeline of

1:29:14

events here like a master prosecutor Brian

1:29:17

last year. You should have finished

1:29:19

that pre-law background you had. You

1:29:21

and Dutch Mantell understand we're in the same class.

1:29:25

The timeline was on

1:29:28

Saturday night CM

1:29:31

Punk returns to the Survivor Series

1:29:33

and breaks the internet in

1:29:36

front of 18,000 people or whatever the

1:29:38

fuck it was at sold-out show

1:29:40

and everybody's going crazy. Meanwhile,

1:29:44

Tony has three hours of television on

1:29:46

a network he's trying to do a

1:29:49

renewal on the rights fees with that

1:29:52

I don't know and we'll talk about that here at

1:29:54

some point in the program. Did

1:29:57

they crack 300,000 viewers this week? And

1:30:01

he tweets about

1:30:03

an unrelated issue,

1:30:05

another part of his sports empire, and

1:30:08

people bombard his army, just bam, bam,

1:30:10

bam, bam, with fuck you about punk

1:30:13

and why couldn't punk be for you

1:30:15

instead of blah, blah, blah. So

1:30:18

the following day, Brian

1:30:21

Danielson emits that

1:30:24

very cryptic tweet, but Brian Danielson is

1:30:26

one of the most universally beloved figures

1:30:28

by the fans. He's such a nice

1:30:30

guy and they've been

1:30:32

in his corner, the yes movement. So

1:30:36

that tweet happens, people are kind of like,

1:30:40

and then the news suddenly appears.

1:30:43

The following morning, I guess, wasn't it?

1:30:46

It's leaked or did it drip or

1:30:48

did it, was the garden hose

1:30:50

spigot turned on and it just kind of

1:30:52

came out on purpose that

1:30:55

Brian Danielson, correct me if

1:30:57

I'm saying this incorrectly, Brian

1:31:00

Danielson was the head of

1:31:03

the disciplinary committee that we heard

1:31:05

about, but never knew who was

1:31:08

on it that led to the firing of

1:31:10

CM Punk or the recommendation of that to

1:31:12

Tony Khan for same. Is

1:31:14

that what we learned the following

1:31:17

morning after Brian admitted

1:31:19

his little word puzzle,

1:31:22

right? The chain of events were that Tony

1:31:24

Khan started getting a lot of flack online from people

1:31:26

about what happened with CM Punk. Then all of a

1:31:28

sudden this tweet, then a story

1:31:31

emerges, Fightful broke the news

1:31:34

that the disciplinary committee in AEW was

1:31:36

a three person committee with

1:31:39

an internal lawyer, Chris

1:31:41

Peck, an external

1:31:43

lawyer who's undefined,

1:31:46

but I'd like to know if he works for the

1:31:48

Khan family in any other fashion. That'd be one of

1:31:51

the questions about the impartial

1:31:53

third party and

1:31:55

a wrestler from the

1:31:57

roster and Brian Danielson was the

1:32:00

pick and this

1:32:02

three-person committee so

1:32:04

that Tony Khan didn't have to make any decisions

1:32:06

on his own came

1:32:09

up with the decision or came

1:32:11

to the decision that CM Punk

1:32:13

should be fired. I guess

1:32:15

fired with cause is the way it was put. Brian

1:32:19

Danielson, here's something from

1:32:21

Fife Law, read it. Danielson

1:32:24

was said to have spoken to the roster

1:32:26

when addressing them about Punk's termination

1:32:29

and noted that the decision was a particularly

1:32:32

hard one. He cited

1:32:34

the positives that CM Punk brought and

1:32:36

his long-standing friendship with Punk, but

1:32:39

said that it was a decision that

1:32:41

had to be made. So

1:32:46

CM Punk's leaving AEW is

1:32:48

now fairly or

1:32:50

unfairly and I

1:32:52

think a lot of it's really unfairly the way this got

1:32:54

out being put on Brian

1:32:57

Danielson. Well, I think

1:33:00

basically Tony probably because Tony

1:33:02

has already announced that Pockets

1:33:05

may be his like adopted delinquent

1:33:08

son but Brian Danielson

1:33:10

is the, I don't know,

1:33:12

is he a big brother figure now? He's the

1:33:14

guy, if anything happens to me folks I'm gonna

1:33:16

leave this in the hands of Brian Danielson. So

1:33:21

did Brian Danielson when Tony tweeted

1:33:23

his big brother and said, they

1:33:26

hate me? They hate me?

1:33:28

They hate me because I fired him but he

1:33:30

yelled at me and what else was I was

1:33:32

supposed to do? Brian said, Tony, I'll

1:33:35

take the heat for this. It

1:33:37

was my decision because after all you

1:33:40

put me on the committee of me

1:33:42

and your other lawyers so that you

1:33:45

wouldn't have to make a decision and

1:33:47

we made a decision purely based

1:33:50

on the facts of the matter and not based

1:33:52

on business

1:33:54

or logic but based on who

1:33:56

you like and who I like and the

1:33:58

fact that I like. having

1:34:01

a guaranteed seven-figure job for life here

1:34:03

with you as long as

1:34:05

you last. That wasn't it

1:34:07

at all. It was purely independent.

1:34:11

So I'll take the heat, kind of. And

1:34:14

he tweeted that and then they

1:34:16

didn't really get it. So

1:34:18

then they had to leak it a little bit

1:34:20

more, but it's to take the heat off of

1:34:22

Tony, because Brian knows the fans

1:34:24

that like him are going

1:34:26

to like him. And

1:34:29

that way he doesn't have to listen to

1:34:31

Tony crown his shoulder at three o'clock in

1:34:33

the morning when Tony should

1:34:35

be up booking fucking

1:34:38

horizontal fucking graphs and vertical graphs

1:34:40

for his next tournament. That's

1:34:43

what I think. I think Brian volunteered.

1:34:46

Let me handle this boss. I

1:34:48

can take care of it. It's

1:34:52

guys to get the heat off Tony. Being

1:34:55

a dickless putts and not

1:34:57

making a decision about his own company and

1:35:00

handed it off to other people who

1:35:03

would make the decision that the

1:35:05

other friends of everybody wanted Tony

1:35:08

to make. So

1:35:11

we got there in the same place, but

1:35:13

Tony didn't have to goddamn take any heat.

1:35:15

Now he's taking heat. So

1:35:18

he wants to get it off of him. And

1:35:20

now, Danielson's going to take heat and going

1:35:22

forward too, when people realize the input of

1:35:24

Brian Danielson and his buddy, Jimmy Jacobs on

1:35:26

this show, they're going to really have to

1:35:28

judge based on where this

1:35:30

show goes. Really

1:35:33

how big of a, how can this was? How

1:35:35

can Danielson have been the best thing about

1:35:37

the show three years ago? And now it's

1:35:40

become like the, the

1:35:42

pacifist. Can I tell you why? Cause

1:35:44

Brian Danielson is one of the most

1:35:47

talented wrestlers of

1:35:49

this generation, if not many

1:35:51

generations. And you can put them

1:35:53

in there and it can

1:35:55

have an amazing emotional match that you can

1:35:57

lose yourself in. Sometimes I

1:35:59

think. I think he does too many of

1:36:01

the same things over and over, but by and

1:36:03

large, really can't complain at all about

1:36:06

it. So do many of the greats. So did

1:36:08

everyone. Flair did, and I loved it. So it's

1:36:10

just the way it is. I

1:36:13

don't know if I would

1:36:15

take that wrestler who's in-ring

1:36:17

work I admire so much and

1:36:21

say I want him to be in charge of any

1:36:24

aspect of my business. There's

1:36:27

a difference between the creative end,

1:36:30

specifically the in-ring creative,

1:36:32

because I also don't know if I

1:36:34

would want that amazing in-ring technician to

1:36:37

have anything to do with my booking. As

1:36:39

talented as he is, he may

1:36:41

not understand how

1:36:43

booking works. And

1:36:47

that everybody else can't keep up

1:36:49

with him in the ring and

1:36:51

that maybe that you need a

1:36:53

little different skill set for the

1:36:56

writing than you do the starring of the movie.

1:37:01

Are you saying that Babe Ruth would

1:37:03

not have made the best owner of

1:37:05

the Yankees? A

1:37:08

fine upstanding sober citizen like Babe

1:37:10

Ruth that would have been business

1:37:12

minded and just

1:37:14

made him a fortune if he was in charge

1:37:17

of the front office? I won't even say the

1:37:19

owner, but that's actually a very interesting example you

1:37:21

just gave because of what really happened. Babe Ruth

1:37:23

was under the impression when

1:37:25

he retired from baseball that

1:37:28

the Yankees were going to bring him

1:37:31

into the organization, that he would

1:37:33

have something to do. He wanted to manage the team. He

1:37:36

still wanted to go on the road with the team, be a

1:37:38

part of it. Be Babe Ruth. He

1:37:41

never got that chance. He thought he

1:37:43

was promised that chance. Caused

1:37:45

some problems, obviously some heartache

1:37:48

for him. Whether or not he would

1:37:50

have been a good manager, I don't know, he would have been an awful

1:37:52

owner, but we're talking

1:37:54

about management. We're talking about managing a ball

1:37:56

club is different than formatting a

1:37:58

show for national television.

1:38:02

Which they apparently have not mastered

1:38:04

the art of yet, but nevertheless,

1:38:06

back to the topic

1:38:08

at hand. So what

1:38:12

was the topic at hand? Well Daniel's

1:38:14

role here, the story getting out, what

1:38:16

are your thoughts in general on the

1:38:18

disciplinary committee being three people and these

1:38:21

three people, in-house lawyer Chris Peck, wrestler

1:38:24

Bryan Danielson, and mystery

1:38:26

lawyer number three from

1:38:29

an outside, impartial

1:38:32

law firm allegedly. It's

1:38:35

the most ridiculous thing I've ever

1:38:37

heard of to begin with. And

1:38:39

part of the reason why that the

1:38:41

AEW fans have bought this whole thing

1:38:44

about that the legal... I

1:38:47

can't comment because of legal and the disciplinary

1:38:49

committee and the legal independent investigation is

1:38:51

just because this is shit that they

1:38:54

actually do for real in

1:38:57

various businesses. You hear

1:38:59

about it all the time. This shit

1:39:01

does get done for real in other lines of

1:39:03

work, but not in a fucking

1:39:05

wrestling business. You fucking

1:39:08

morons. It

1:39:10

doesn't happen. It didn't happen here.

1:39:12

Not anything legitimate. And

1:39:14

it can happen. Because

1:39:17

in your goddamn Tony

1:39:19

Khan, whether he's the Booker or

1:39:22

Triple H, if you want to call him

1:39:24

the Booker, there's a staff of writers, but

1:39:26

the goddamn director of the movie, the

1:39:29

director of the movie and

1:39:32

or the studio are

1:39:34

the ones who decide what the fuck is going

1:39:36

to happen. And even then

1:39:38

now, it's not the way it was

1:39:40

back in the days of Jack Warner. But

1:39:43

I guarantee you that

1:39:45

there has never been a case in

1:39:47

the WWE where Vince

1:39:50

McMahon wasn't the person to

1:39:52

personally not

1:39:55

only hear both sides of the goddamn

1:39:57

talent's argument and or delegate it to

1:39:59

Jim Ross. But then Vince would hear about

1:40:01

it. Hear both sides of

1:40:03

the goddamn argument and then make the decision of

1:40:05

which one was more valuable. And

1:40:08

that would be the end. And then that other person

1:40:10

would find out. And

1:40:13

that'd be the end of that. There's

1:40:16

a disciplinary committee for the fucking boy.

1:40:18

Yeah, they investigate Vince cause he's worth

1:40:20

$5 billion or whatever

1:40:22

the fuck. But you

1:40:24

don't investigate goddamn wrestlers. You

1:40:28

get to the goddamn meat

1:40:30

of the matter of what the fucking problem was. You

1:40:33

ascertain as best you can whose

1:40:36

fault it was as far as who instigated this shit or

1:40:38

who should have known better. You

1:40:41

figure out which one is more valuable to you. And

1:40:46

if they can't possibly live together, generally you get rid

1:40:48

of the one that's not

1:40:50

valuable and keep the one

1:40:52

that is or else why I was just tell them both quit

1:40:55

quit your goddamn bitch and stay away from each

1:40:57

other. I'll fire one or both of you. It

1:41:00

shouldn't be that difficult and it doesn't

1:41:02

take that long. But

1:41:05

nobody wanted to do that here. And now

1:41:08

again, Tony don't want the fans mad at

1:41:10

him. So Daniel's in

1:41:12

his offer to take the bullet because he's a

1:41:14

lot more bulletproof than Tony, who already looks

1:41:16

like a fucking imbecile to a lot of people

1:41:19

to begin with these days, but

1:41:22

it's bullshit. It's all bullshit.

1:41:25

According to Fightful, Danielson remains on

1:41:28

the committee and he's responsible for

1:41:30

the committee for what he's responsible

1:41:32

for issuing fines when those arise.

1:41:35

What for what? When,

1:41:38

when is the last time they find

1:41:40

somebody or disciplined anybody?

1:41:44

It's, do they find people with, Hey, you

1:41:46

broke my fucking star's leg by jumping off

1:41:49

the top rope on his fucking leg. Jungle

1:41:51

boy. I'm going to find you. What about

1:41:53

jungle boy? Did he get fined? He's, he's

1:41:55

sitting home getting paid as far as we

1:41:58

know to not wrestle. He was suspended. Is

1:42:00

that something that Tony Kahn decided or

1:42:02

the disciplinary committee of three

1:42:05

decided? Ed,

1:42:08

who, who, why do they need

1:42:10

an ongoing disciplinary committee? Who

1:42:12

else is getting disciplined? They did whenever somebody

1:42:14

fucks up, they just don't book them. Who

1:42:17

was it? Who Andre, right?

1:42:19

Punched fucking Sammy. And we did the same home,

1:42:22

set him a check for six months so he

1:42:24

wouldn't cause trouble. Man, he's so desperate to get

1:42:26

fired. And I don't know this for sure, but

1:42:28

as soon as Punk debuted, he put up a

1:42:31

picture of him in Punk. Like, he's all he

1:42:33

wants to be out of there so bad, everyone

1:42:35

knows it. He's auditioning for

1:42:37

the fucking rival team to the Jacksonville

1:42:40

Jaguars just to fuck with Tony even

1:42:42

further. Well, we'll see what happens with

1:42:44

Brian Danielson and AEW going forward. Danielson

1:42:47

the disciplinarian, I never thought I'd see

1:42:49

the day. He's such a quiet boy.

1:42:52

From the topic of things happening in AEW,

1:42:54

let me pull something up right here. QT

1:42:58

Marshall issued

1:43:00

a resignation publicly to AEW.

1:43:04

Let me see if I could

1:43:06

actually find the resignation. Give me one second here.

1:43:08

Well, and while you do that, I will mention

1:43:10

that I think I've talked about it on the

1:43:13

program before. I worked with QT Marshall back

1:43:15

in Ring of Honor in 2011 and 12. Delirious

1:43:19

had found him. He's originally from New

1:43:22

Jersey. And at that

1:43:24

time, he was in his mid-20s and was

1:43:27

a good worker, had size,

1:43:31

had the one thing that

1:43:33

most of our Ring of Honor talent didn't

1:43:35

have, which actually was six foot fucking something

1:43:37

and a normal sized adult

1:43:40

man. And he had

1:43:42

that fucking face, he gets that grin like he's

1:43:46

better than people and the pomposity of

1:43:48

it. And so we used

1:43:50

him for a while. And I

1:43:52

think the reason why we quit booking him was

1:43:55

because he moved to Florida and we couldn't

1:43:58

afford a plane ticket for a... you know,

1:44:00

a guy that we were just using underneath and so

1:44:03

nothing ever came of it at that

1:44:05

point. I never had anything against

1:44:07

QT. Right. But

1:44:09

then I still have

1:44:11

not said QT is a motherfucker that deserves

1:44:13

to die, but he

1:44:16

hadn't been very good on the wrestling program 10, 12

1:44:18

years later. And

1:44:21

part of that's because of the

1:44:24

stupidity of letting him do

1:44:26

this QTV stuff, which obviously had to

1:44:28

be his idea. You

1:44:30

know, and I know he's helped Tony do

1:44:32

formats and whatever. I'm

1:44:35

sorry. He wasn't particularly that experienced at any

1:44:37

kind of a high level doing those things.

1:44:39

They just, I guess, again,

1:44:41

everybody, he's not a bad fellow. Everybody

1:44:44

liked him. They gave him that job,

1:44:46

but he's now

1:44:48

in his mid thirties, I

1:44:50

guess he's 10 or 12 years older than he was when

1:44:52

I worked with him. And

1:44:54

if it was going to understand, he wants to

1:44:56

be a wrestler, but

1:44:58

if it was going to happen, it probably

1:45:00

happened by now because his wrestling, you know,

1:45:04

exploits in a, w have not

1:45:08

been anything right home about. So

1:45:10

I believe if I was him and I

1:45:12

was working right next

1:45:14

to the boss, the billionaire getting paid,

1:45:16

whether I wrestle or not, I might've

1:45:19

kept this gig. Just my

1:45:21

first blush thought of it, but

1:45:24

he, he's another guy that wants to wrestle before

1:45:26

it's too late. He

1:45:28

was someone partners with Cody Rhodes in

1:45:31

the nightmare factory was

1:45:33

a part of AEW early on. That's how I

1:45:35

got to hear your reaction. Oh, that's QT Marshall.

1:45:37

I know who he is before they were pronouncing

1:45:39

his name that way. And

1:45:43

not used well and

1:45:46

not particularly great